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Alternative Educational Programs in Architecture:The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies
No full textlapa - laboratory for the production of architecture
No full textThis chapter exhibits the work and methodology of the lapa, and its exhibition at the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2008.LABAThis book is the main publication outlining the Swiss Pavilion at the 2008 Venice Architectural Biennale, entitled: "Out There
From City to Detail - The sphere of the architect
No full textEssay outlining the working methodology of the laboratoire de la production d'architecture, and discussing the ability of the architect to influence the built fabric of urbanity beyond the scope of a building project. The article is a result of teaching and research interactions within the lapa, and a doctoral study of working methodologies in architecture and urban design laboratories.LABAThis article accompanies a chapter exhibiting the work and results of the lapa studio and thier 2007 study on Havana, Cuba
Alternative Educational Programs in Architecture:The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies
No full textWalk Don't Run
No full textThis thesis is a public swimming pool on a bridge that spans the Los Angeles River. As Southern California attempts to remake its water infrastructure in response to the ongoing drought, the introduction of public program to these infrastructural investments can make their urban effects more explicit. This thesis suggests that public bathing and swimming can provoke a new understanding of the city’s water as a shared resource and assert a new social life for the city that Los Angeles will become
Giedion and America: Repositioning the History of Modern Architecture
No full textSigfried Giedion (1888–1968), one of the main protagonists of the architectural avant-garde in Europe, paradoxically achieved this reputation in America, far from his homeland. Nearly all of Giedion’s books written after his initial stay at Harvard University were published in English long before they became available in his native German. Reto Geiser sheds new light on Giedion’s life and reassesses his work through the lens of cultural transformation and modernization processes. The author questions the unbroken line of developments portrayed in the historiography of modern architecture, and argues that Giedion’s position in between two cultural spheres not only caused ruptures and contradictions in his work but also productively shaped its reception on either side of the Atlantic
Third
No full textIn our perception, the built environment tends to disappear into the background through habit and routine. In this thesis, artistic explorations in manipulating our perceptual field serve as the basis to investigate for architecture to do the same. The project takes a sociological definition of space, positing the latent potential of third places to mediate between the privacy of our domestic environments and our public spheres within the context of our everyday social environment. Representational techniques, including repetition and doubling, are used to create a sensory awareness of ‘sameness’ that allows subtle differences to foreground in our perception.
Sited in a fictional urban context, the project disguises itself as a normative five-story building containing spaces for domestic, professional, and social activities. The result is a limited palette of planimetric and three-dimensional representations that stage mundane scenes of habitation and routine as something unfamiliar or that which requires closer inspection
Allegories of Repair
No full text"Allegories of Repair" explores the complex dynamics of marginalized communities, focusing on West Dallas. Embracing Donna Haraway's "situated knowledges," the thesis proposes a resilient methodology to understand the intertwined context. Utilizing storytelling tools, the narrative unfolds, depicting the challenges faced by West Dallas, from industrial proximity to rapid displacement. This causes for the rejection of simplistic architectural solutions. Instead, a network of interventions is proposed, including adaptive reuse and small-scale creative spaces. The thesis emphasizes subtle acts of redistribution and reorganization to promote community care. Despite diverse outcomes, the interventions collectively contribute to fostering a new collective attitude in West Dallas
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